Mom and Dad (1945)

Directed by

William Beaudine

Genre

drama film, sexploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sex hygiene film from the 1940s that uses a story about a teenage girl, her pregnancy, and a traveling health lecturer to deliver explicit information about sex and venereal disease. It was marketed as a way to educate viewers while skirting censorship laws of the time.

datedsensationalisteducationalprovocativemoralisticcontroversialexploitative

What happens

Mom and Dad is a 1945 American sexploitation film directed by William Beaudine, and largely produced by the exploitation film maker and presenter Kroger Babb. Mom and Dad is considered the most successful film within its genre of "sex hygiene" films. Although it faced numerous legal challenges and was condemned by the National Legion of Decency, it became one of the highest-grossing films of the 1940s. The film is regarded as an exploitation film as it was repackaged controversial content designed to establish an educational value that might circumvent U.S. censorship laws. Babb's marketing of his film incorporated old-style medicine show techniques, and used unique promotions to build an audience. These formed a template for his later works, which were imitated by his contemporary filmmakers. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Mom and Dad in 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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